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S..PERRIS. UASTER.

' No. 280,164. Patented June 2 6, 1883.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SMITH reams, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

CASTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,164, dated June 26, 1883.

Application filed November 23, 1882. (No model.)

whereby the spindle is retained in its seat in the socket, and at the same time has secured to it and the roller carried by it free play within the socket, as specified.

Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, of a caster embodying my invention. 7 Fig. 2 is a vertical section with the roller removed. Fig. 3 is an under, face plan of the flanged socket, and showing the device for detaining the spindle therein. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 00 00, Fig. 3.

A is the bracket, carrying the roller B. This bracket has the wide horizontal slots b, in which the axle of the roller B has its bearing, as shown. The bracket is rigidly secured to the lower end of the spindle G, as shown at a.

The spindle 0 is seated in the socket D, and

its upper or hearing end has the pointed conical end 0, working against a coincident recess in the socket, as seen at d. The socket D is of the usual form, and is adapted to be inserted in an orifice in the leg of an article of furniture, and it has the wide flange d. About the spindle G, at the point where it projects from the socket D, there is formed the circumferential shoulder c. In a suitable recess, (1 formed in the'under face of the flange d about the opening forthe spindle, is a plate, E, in.

inclined, as seen at e, and the rim or wall (2 of the recess d' is similarly inclined, so that this edge of the plate will be fitted into the recess with a dovetail joint, as shown. 6, is formed 011 the plate, and is given the same inclination relatively to the plate and flange d as the edge e of the plate. This pin is passed through an opening in the flange, as

at d, and the end on the upper side of the flange may then be turned over upon or riveted down onto the flange.

A pin,

tail of the collar and recess, and the end of said pin may be then turned down on the up per face of the flange. The collar will thus be effectively held in place, and it will be seated without the expenditure of much force in the recess 0?. The employment of a collar, E, in the form shown, and seated, as described, enables the use of a segment of a circle, and 0011- sequently of less material.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a furniture-caster, the combination, with the spindle O, carrying bracket A, and roller 13, of the socket D, having flange 01, together with the segmental collar E with its inclined outer rim, 6, and inclined pin 6, working, respectively, in dovetail recess d and inclined aperture (1* of said flange, andbearing-shoulder c on the spindle, all as and for the purpose specified.

SMITH FERRIS.

Witnesses:

A. S. Frrcrr, A. G. N. VERMILYA. 

